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Flashcards by jacksearle, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by jacksearle
over 11 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Yalta Conference | 1945 |
| Bombing of Hiroshima | 6 August 1945 |
| Iron Curtain Speech | 1946 |
| Truman Doctrine | 1947 |
| Marshall Plan | 1947 |
| Baruch Plan failed | 1946 |
| Communist Coup Czechoslovakia | 1948 |
| Berlin Blockade | 1948-1949 |
| Nato Established | 1949 |
| USSR tests Atomic Bomb | 1949 |
| CCP take over China | 1949 |
| Korean War Start | 1950 |
| USA tests Hydrogen Bomb | 1952 |
| Stalin's Death | 1953 |
| Korean Ceasefire | July 1953 |
| Geneva Agreement on Indochina | 1954 |
| 1st Taiwan Straits Crisis | 1954 |
| Khrushchev's first visit to China | 1954 |
| USA first Intercontinental Bombers | 1955 |
| Warsaw Pact Established | 1955 |
| Geneva Summit | 1955 |
| Khrushchev's Secret Speech | 1956 |
| USSR first TU20 bear (intercontinental bomber) | 1956 |
| Soviets invade Hungary | 1956 |
| Sputnik | 1957 |
| Eisenhower warned of Missile Gap | 1957 |
| Khrushchev criticises Great Leap Forward | 1958 |
| 2nd Berlin Crisis | 1958 |
| 2nd Taiwan Straits Crisis | 1958 |
| Sino-Soviet agreement on atomic cooperation cancelled | 1959 |
| Cuban Revolution | 1959 |
| U2 Spy Plane incident | 1960 |
| JFK becomes President | 1961 |
| Yuri Gugarin first man in space | 1961 |
| Bay of Pigs invasion | 1961 |
| Vienna Summit | 1961 |
| Berlin Wall erected | 1961 |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | October 1962 |
| Hot line telephone link/Nuclear test ban treaty | 1963 |
| China 1st Nuclear Bomb test | 1964 |
| Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia | 1968 |
| Sino-Soviet border clashes - Ussuri River | 1969 |
| Nixon Visits China | 1972 |
| Salt I agreed | 1972 |
| Apollo-Soyuz Link up | 1975 |
| Helsinki Accords | 1975 |
| Salt II signed but not ratified | 1979 |
| Soviets invade Afghanistan | 1979 |
| Martial Law in Poland | 1980 |
| SDI announced | 1983 |
| Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader | 1985 |
| Washington Summit (INF Treaty) | 1987 |
| Collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe | 1989 |
| Reunification of Germany | 1990 |
| End of USSR | 25th December 1991 |
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